Navid

“Programs expand to fill the memory available to hold them.”
― Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Modern Operating Systems

“There are several conflicting explanations of exactly where the word "byte" came from, but since it sounds just like the word "bite," you can just think of it as a whole mouthful compared with a smaller unit, a bit. Just to show you that computer designers do have a sense of humor, when they use four bits as a unit, they call it a nibble. So you can eat a tiny bit of cherry pie, or have a nibble or take a whole byte.”
― J. Clark Scott, But How Do It Know? The Basic Principles of Computers for Everyone

“The trapdoor beneath our feet swings open. We find ourselves in bottomless free fall. We are lost in a great darkness, and there’s no one to send out a search party. Given so harsh a reality, of course we’re tempted to shut our eyes and pretend that we’re safe and snug at home, that the fall is only a bad dream.”
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

“There is one logical way of solving the riddle: to argue that there is a single omnipotent God who created the entire universe – and He’s evil. But nobody in history has had the stomach for such a belief.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind